We extend our congratulations to Top Hat for receiving the prestigious Company of the Year award and to David Benton Leong, recipient of the Borges Community Builder of the Year award!

The Golden Triangle Angel Network held its 6th annual Pauli Awards on Tuesday June 20th night at Bingemans Conference Centre in Kitchener, celebrating seven years of unprecedented success for it’s members and the community. The Pauli Awards recognize leading contributors of local tech investments and celebrate GTAN’s success including over $35M in capital committed by Angel investors, thereby infusing over $62M of capital into local, early-stage companies.

Brian has over 35 years of experience in providing debt and equity financing to private and publicly held businesses in Southern Ontario. Having began his career with Canada’s leading private merchant bank, Roynat Capital, Brian later became Director and District Manager of the Kitchener office and has assisted hundreds of entrepreneurs with long term capital needs.

In 2009 Brian and Sol Algranti co-founded NorthSpring Capital Partners, a private equity fund that is focused on contributing to the growth of the next generation of great Canadian companies by providing risk capital to both traditional industry companies, such as manufacturers and distributors, and early stage technology company startups. NorthSpring Capital Partners recently announced investments in five high growth companies located in the Toronto-Waterloo technology corridor.